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Puck 417

NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!!! A NEW STYLE FOR PUCK?!?
Someone gots a special guest artist to do this new voting incentive! See what this comic might look like if it were drawn by a real artist! (And remember: fans who donate $5 or more a month get a say in what voting incentives run! If you want to join their controlling ranks, HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!)

I have to admit that having a comic where two characters just float in a nebulous sea of colors is WAY easier to create than my usual stuff. I might need to make the comic set inside nebulous seas of color more often!

NB: This comic explains at least in part why Mr. T is so tall here. He looms larger than life in Colin’s mind; ergo, that’s how he would appear. In real life, Mr. T would be exactly the same height as Colin.

And if we were doing studies on HEIGHT alone, at least then it is something that can be reliably measured.

But INTELLIGENCE and BEAUTY are subjective and the ideals can and do vary by Culture. But no, not a lot.

And even when it comes to HEIGHT, studies have shown that although Fashion Models tend to be tall, women that are even a bit below average height tend to have more children. Which in the long run of Human Survival is a winner.

Yet the MOST important factor in Life is one we don’t even dare to measure. And that’s PERSONALITY.

Look at Mr T right here. Millions of men share, even exceed, his looks, height, intelligence, but they’re not Mr T, are they ?

No, NO ! Not to WEAR ! Or even as a gift to his long-suffering mate Janet. That wouldn’t be like him at all.

No, in his too-frequent trips to Thrift Shops, in search of MANLY TREASURES (like plumbing wrenches – and now Mr T vinyl albums), he notices very expensive Woman’s Clothing, in new or nearly new condition, selling for very little.

He figures he could resell such items on eBay.

But then he also notices that the clothing that sells best on eBay is photographed while being worn by a Model.

Janet refuses to do “DUMMY-DUTY”, so Baldie figured he should buy an attractive Manikin (Womanikin ?) for photos.

THE PROBLEM: Although the vast majority of clothing is manufactured for, and purchased by people who are of Average Size, all Store Display Manikins are TALL ! Just like Runway Models.

Baldies needs a Manikin of an average 5″4″ Woman, not of a 5’10” Woman.

Mannequins are just nonsense. Utter nonsense. They’re all way taller than average women, way thinner than average women, and — here’s the funny part — don’t even FIT the clothes they’re modelling. I know why fashion types love tall, thin models and mannequins because they insist the clothes ‘hang better’ on them, and sure, I’ll buy that. But look at any of the female mannequins in clothing stores and you’ll see that most of them are safety-pinned at the back just to get a decent fit out of the garment.

I know this all too well because my wife is part of that tiny minority of women who share a build with the mannequins. She’s tall and thin, and guess what? MOST OF THE CLOTHES IN STORES DON’T FIT HER. Not well, anyway. Lots of stuff just looks like a tent on her, even though the same top looked great on a similarly sized mannequin at the store – because it was pinned all down the back.

My action plan for this? Create a bunch of new mannequins featuring a RANGE of builds, and maybe also create clothing for a range of builds (radical concept, right?) and then everything will work.

As somebody who is 5′ 1 1/2″ tall and 103 pounds (this morning) I am below average in those measurements, but my bf tells me that I am above average in Beauty and Intelligence or he wouldn’t have been attracted to me in the first place. I’ll take it.

And most grating of all, DECIMATE used to mean ANNIHILATE. Decimate is from the Latin word for TEN, and therefore is defined as a tenth. Let’s say your Bank Account were Decimated; then instead of $100, you’d now have $90. You’d have suffered a loss of a tenth.

I think Mr T did more to derail his teachings than Colin. Spirit animals are guides, and would thus be at least a semi-appropriate analogy for Colin’s current situation. Although why a figment of Colin’s imagination would be so quickly offended by the comparison is another conversation entirely.

To be honest, this is really not accurate to life. When you go under (other than in very odd and sometimes horrifying cases), you don’t dream, or really have any kind of sense of time passing whatsoever. You’re on the operating table, then BAM. One second later, you’re in the recovery room. It’s really disconcerting. But sometimes in fiction, we need to deviate from reality for the sake of … this. Whatever this is.

That was certainly how it went with my last general anesthetic. One shot, told to lay on my side and literally the next second it was twenty minutes later. Disconcerting, but not as much as being aware of what was done to me for those twenty minutes!

I can take no credit for the voting incentive, sadly. But on the T front, Colin has long admired Mr. T. It’s been a running sort of gag in the comic for years, so I thought it needed to be recognized in a larger fashion.

I voted and got the incentive, and while I can say it is well done and all that, it confirms my dislike for computer drawn art. I am not saying that computer drawn art is bad, I am just saying that I personally don’t like it, no matter how well done it is. It always stikes me that there is something missing.

Well, I find for me that it’s also partially a matter of style. I love Sean’s stuff, but it’s far away stylistically from my stuff. I envy his talents because I simply don’t have that digital painting skillset. I couldn’t do what he does.

To be honest, though, I think I’m about the only webcomic artist left on this planet who works with actual paper and actual ink. Everyone else has gone digital, though often I can’t even really tell. If I were smart, I’d have already made the switch to fully digital, but I’m not smart. Also, the concept of not having a physical master give me serious agita.

So “First Nations People” are what the Duke would call “Indians?” I wish my great-gramma could have heard that. She was Cherokee. “Tsalagi” is the Cherokee word for Cherokee. I didn’t learn that from Granny, but from Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock novels. She did say that her folks didn’t go on the Trail of Tears. I asked her how they got out of it, she just grunted and said, “They hid in the woods.” Works for me.

I am most familiar with McClintock! (exclamation mark actually part of title) which was decidedly politically incorrect in all the possible ways it could be politically incorrect. My mother loves that movie. I … could live without it.

As I understand, Mr T’s ‘look’ was based off what he could learn of his own ancestor’s traditions. Not a mohawk as based on the Mohawk Native American tribe, but a similar cut based on traditional Native African styles.
Or such is what I took away from a barely remembered movie ‘Mr. T’s Be Somebody’

The most famous fossil is the partial skeleton named Lucy (3.2 million years old) found by Donald Johanson and colleagues, who, in celebration of their find, repeatedly played the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. -Wiki

Wow. After three years of reading “Puck,” I just discovered that hovering the mouse over a strip brings out a comment by the author. I should experiment more while reading!
But that brings up an issue. I don’t think Mr. T wears a Mohawk. It looks more like a Mandingo haircut. That’s West African, so he probably gets a pass even if he’s descended from other West African tribes. (Or is that politically incorrect?)